So with that game, was there any relation to actual mafia play at all, or was it just silly randomness? Not that I don't love the silly randomness, I just think some nod to "town should be able to authentically scumhunt, somehow" even if it's not in a normal way, would be cool.

Basically, some kind of neat balance where if you're town your suspects are in the "educated guess" middle between "dartboard" and "carefully constructed wall case"

 

TBH I haven't played Mafia other than the occasional #werewolf game and I would love it so much if someone would run a game using the rules from Death Eaters I

I can't believe it's been more than four and a half years since we started playing Mafia games on DLP

EDIT: I suppose I'd be down to play Memefia though if Death Eaters isn't gonna happen.

Oh and I think we should all harass Lungs so that he'll run a new game of DLPMafia starting on July 30th since that will be the five year anniversary of when the first mafia thread on DLP went up

 

yeah, the images could be silly at times (mostly because of elusive <3) but you could scumhunt with some reasonable accuracy

elusive/rubicon/mathblade and i all townread each other correctly, i think

i'll go find it now

edit: oh right, there was also a mechanic where every other day, the mafia would pick three people, and those were the only eligible wagons for that day

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=60989&sid=9b361495a822e1e5fd48811efb1af37a

 

Hmm, I scrolled through that game and it's a neat idea, but I'm not sure I like the whole "using multiple images to convey a complete thought." I had envisioned something more like "reaction shots" to arguments/opinions that were already there, hence the "play 24 hours normally and then 24 hours with pictures."

Meh, I dunno. Just an idea. Mainly I just want an excuse to spam all my awesome mafia memes that I haven't gotten a chance to use yet.

 

I mean obviously you don't have to replicate the game exactly, it was just a close approximation to what you were talking about so I thought seeing that kind of thing in action would help.

If you use all your memes now, what will you use later?

 

the meme train has no brakes.

 

unsure if i like your restrictions .. it think in a game like this people should just know that posting images and all that is encouraged. forcing only images for the later parts of a day (esp EoD) might break the game a bit much.

I would also prefer a not known setup for this, but a setup where maybe some roles can interact with memes, and noone knows why or how from the get go.
(encourages people to post pictures without being forced by a timer)

Maybe the cop can only check within the 3 lowest pic posters of the day, or a killing role has to announce their kill a certain way with a certain style of pic during the day. A lot of fun options to spice up a game like this. Obviously the people in the game only know what is true at what isnt after ppl flip.

Just my 2 cents on the matter.

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in addition to that storytelling should be supported, or people should believe it might be.

Instead of just giving a read people might just write a little story about how they feel about certain people and all that. (hi von!)
While that is not a meme or picture .. it goes in a similar direction, just uses another method to transport the message, that is also very fluffy.

 

For what its worth, I'm taking another glance at Dark Tower mafia. Expecting it to be a powers game, probably about 15 players or so by the time I'm done examining roles and working on the mechanics.

EDIT: Make that about 12-13 players. Probably looking to be the usual split town-to-scum ratio(9/3). My old idea of basing it on Roland's youth in Mejis is still the intent for those who may be interested.
EDIT2: Balancing this is going to be messy, urgh. Might need to get on irc for help.

 

Running any kind of old setup/anything that would bring back some of the old guard sounds good. I personally like the minimalism of Death Eaters but feel like the number values may distract a little from the evaluation of how the strength of different roles is dependent on how they interact with one another. Has it been pretty balanced in your experience?

Would love to see Newcomb's idea pan out somehow. Minimally familiar with the source material of Zenzao's but still might play/replace?

 

Had a thought about Memefia.

I'm trying to solve the problem where "images only" is too silly / random, but "post text sometimes, images other times" kind of dilutes the images to just a novelty, because if you had it as "first half of day / last half of day" then it's just like, well, the images are kind of an afterthought.

Possible solution: rotational post restrictions. Half the playerbase can only post in images on odd days, the other half on even days. I'm thinking you'd randomize this among town / mafia so there'd be no way to PoE people based on flips.

guys help why do I want to play Memefia so much

 

Your deeply held hatred of my data plan?

 

You know there's a setting on the user control panel to change embedded images back to links, right?

 

Mafia where I can't read half the conversation. That works

 

That's how I play most mafia tbh

 

From what I saw in the archives, the only time that Death Eaters set-up ran they no lynched 3-4 times from lurking and scum won.

I have a couple good flavor ideas between the long delayed Pokemon game I've wanted to do, plus a Concussion theme game, but don't have set-ups for them atm.

 

Might be interesting to let people choose pregame whether they want to be image-only on even or odd days.

Alternatively you could set a word/character limit per Day phase, and if people post >limit then their vote doesn't count for the rest of the Day(?) So that it's limited by amount of words rather than time in which to use them.

 

140 characters per post + (optional) image with no more than 15 words on it.

Post limit of 5 per 24 hour period.

 

Every character in Math blades posts, a hyperlink to a section of her Conspiracy wall.

 

Hmmmm...

Well I kinda want to give it a test run. I'm not sure I like the character / post limits, as that could get a bit angle-shooty, plus the hassle of the mod keeping track of that and infracting people.

I'm thinking something like:

I want to play, so this would need a mod.

Maybe toss this post a thumbs-up if you're interested in playing? Let's gauge interest and see if we have 13. (Ideally with a replacement or two.)

If you can't thumbs up, post something. If you want to mod, post that too.